[meteorite-list] What's Your Favourite Ordinary Chondrite?

From: Dave Schultz <indy1996_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:47 2004
Message-ID: <20030311184546.67742.qmail_at_web40508.mail.yahoo.com>

  Greetings everyone. First I`m depressed that I
missed the get together in Chicago Sunday evening! :(
I had to work late.
  Second. Here is a list of my favorite ordinary
chondrites in my collection. Sorry, but I just had to
list 6.

  1) Vyatka H4/5 550 gram full slice.
  2) Naiman L6 58.25 gram full slice.
  3) Kunashak L6 66.06 gram partslice.
  4) NWA 061 LL4 8.00 gram partslice.
  5) Bensour LL6 79.61 gram oriented indivivdual.
  6) My new and really cool...
     Thuathe H4 163.56 gram individual.
 
                       Have a great day! Dave
                                      


> G'day List,
>
> Today I got to thinking how most of the 'Prestige'
> in meteorites generally goes to the Achondrites,
> Pallasites etc. The good lookers! ;-) So I thought I
> would throw this out to everyone and ask what your
> favourite Ordinary Chondrite is because there are
> some really amazing meteorites which this
> classification. It doesn't matter what your reason
> is. It may be that it's just a really attractive
> piece or possibly the story behind how it was found
> or fell. If everyone gets into the spirit of it,
> I'll tally up all the answers in a week or so and
> let everyone know the Top Picks! We may find some
> surprising results! You can give up to 5 favourites
> and I'll start with these picks:
>
> 1) Knyachinya (L/LL5) - Birthday meteorite with
> great fresh crust and a really nice colourful
> brecciated matrix.
>
> 2) Parnallee (LL3.6) - Put simply: Rare, Old and
> Awesome matrix.
>
> 3) NWA 965 (LL4) - Tiny TKW with a matrix choc full
> of multi-coloured crisp chondrules.
>
> 4) Richfield (LL3.7) - If you haven't seen a larger
> piece or a good photo of one; time to change that!
>
> 5) Bensour (LL6) - As fresh & dramatic as it gets.
> Whitish matrix with jet black fusion crust! Too
> cool!
>
>
> Looking forward to hearing some responses,
>
> Jeff Kuyken
> I.M.C.A. #3085
> www.meteoritesaustralia.com
>
>
> (P.S. It's not as easy as you think!)
>


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Received on Tue 11 Mar 2003 01:45:46 PM PST